The great Aussie debacle and world is not complaining.

Recently  there was a crucial one dayer between Pakistan and Australia  And somebody  who did not follow cricket just asked me curiously as to which side I was supporting . I replied that I was rooting for Pakistan and he was flummoxed as to why on earth was an Indian supporting a Pakistan side which was taking on the Aussies.  My logical reasoning was that I have always had nothing but  contempt for the Aussies and whichever side was taking on the Aussies, I would support that side but never the Aussies. I have some very good reasons for my hatred towards the Aussies. Don’t mistake me,  Australia is a great  country with great sporting tradition. The Aussie athletes are very famous for their fitness and endurance all over the world. Especially the Australian cricket team  has been one of the most consistently performing team for over 2 decades. the Aussies have won 4 cricket world cups, numerous important series and been the top ranked test team for about a decade or so. Having said all that, the Aussies have been a naturally aggressive lot and  this has spilled on to the sporting arena.

Right throughout the 90’s and the first decade of the new millennium, the Aussies had enjoyed unprecedented success in all the formats of the game. It was blesses to have 6 or 7  great players at every point in time who could win matches and coupled with captains like Mark Taylor, Steve Waugh and Ricky Ponting who led from the front. The one thing common amongst the champion Aussie team was the on field behavior which was  very  rude and not in accordance to the spirit of the game on some occasions. There was a lot of murmur among past legends that the Aussies were not popular champions  when00ever the Aussies were compared with the world champion side of the west indies in the mid 70’s and  80’s,people just disregarded the Aussies as the west Indian team won a lot of heart and local  fan’s applause even if the local team was on the losing side. The great west Indian side boasted of some of the finest fast bowlers who never abused or used foul language against  the batsmen  but always  beat the opponents fairly and within the spirit of the game.  The west Indian team always played with passion and a smile on the face. On the contrary the Aussie bowlers and fielders  also stepped outside the spirit of the game and termed their on field behaviour as mental disintegration. The Sarwan – Macgrath confrontation  and the infamous Sydney test against India in 2007 are some of the examples of the crude Aussie behaviour.

The current Aussie team is in a state of  turmoil to say the least and the period of transition is taking far too long . the most worrying part for the Aussies is that there seems to be a dearth of young talented players who can take the team forward.  The current  Aussie team does not have the ability to instill fear in the opponents mind and even weaker opponents like Bangladesh are giving the Aussies a good run for their money. The recent record of the Australian team has not been very impressive  australia has only won a single test match out of 7 losing 6 tests in a row in 2013. The Aussie batsmen  struggle to play quality spin as was evident against the Indian team which gave them a  4- 0 brownwash in India earlier this year. The current ashes series is amply displaying chinks in the Aussie armor as neither the openers nor the middle order batsmen are able to put up a good total on the board  the ever threatening fast bowling line up of the Aussies also seems to have dwindled with a dozen or so fast bowlers who have been tried but apart from peter Siddle and to some extent Mitchell Johnson, none of the young  pacers have been able to cement their spot in the test squad. Every sporting team  goes through a lean phase when nothing goes their way  like the west indies team which  has struggled for more than a decade and a half . unlike the Aussies, everybody in world cricket wants the revival of the west Indian team because the brand of cricket which they display and the man ner in which they play in the manner in which a sport should be always played with a smile on the faces. The winning moments shared by the west Indian side after the  world t -20 triumph are ideal spectacles for young kids to emulate and exactly the manner in which any sport should be played.Currently everybody excepting the Aussie fans must be enjoying the debacle of the Aussies as they have always appeared to be an arrogant lot nobody I dear say should have any sympathy for them and  I hope all of us especially from the subcontinent want them to be thrashed 5-0 in the ashes.